ATLP 2022 Car Visits Cassino

The Around The Layout Podcast boxcar, ATLP 2022, had previously arrived in Adelaide having worked over the Border District (see the Border District blog here for details: ATLP 2022 visits the Border District). However, when news that the South Australian Railways (SAR) had trialled ALTP 2022 with an actual load, both the Victorian Railways (VR) and New South Wales Government Railways (NSWGR) determined they wanted to do the same.

Arrangements were made for ALTP 2022 to be transited from Adelaide back to Melbourne on SAR TN 47/VR Train Number (TN) 46 Fast Goods. This working passed through the Border District again, but it appears our usual scribe was caught napping and missed the movement (they are still crying gunzel tears as a result). It is believed SAR ALCo 935 hauled the train from Adelaide to Tatiara Downs, and VR GM S301 hauled the train into Melbourne. In Melbourne, the VR also tested ALTP 2022 on hauling paper products, working empty to and loaded from Maryvale in the Gippsland. 

With VR evaluations complete, ALTP 2022 was bogie exchanged from broad gauge (5' 3") to standard gauge (4' 8 1/2") at Dynon, and sent northwards to Albury (NSW) on VR TN 4521 Through Goods, departing Dynon at 21:40 and arriving in Albury at 03:40. With a loco change from VR to NSW power completed in Albury, the train continued north at 05:10 as NSWGR TN 452 Through Goods. ATLP 2022 was shunted off a little further north at Ettamogah for loading with newsprint paper roll products. The following day's working of NSWGR TN 452 Through Goods collected the loaded ATLP 2022 and conveyed it forward to Sydney.

In Sydney the car was shunted to be part of the load to Brisbane on the paper train.  It must have snuck through the northern suburbs of Sydney in the early morning and the first the train spotting community knew of it was when the wagon was spotted at Grafton Staging in road 6 on No. 15 The Down Paper Train lead by 4416 and 44240.  

ATLP 2022 is spotted in Grafton Staging on #15

The train has started north and is just exiting Grafton Yard

The train travels north heading towards Cassino

The ALTP 2022 wagon was first wagon on the paper train.  Loco 44240 was having troubles with its engine.  It had to be restarted a few times.  However, when it finally got across the Richmond River Bridge, the injectors must have cleaned themselves out, and it sprung back into life and started running well again.  There was a slight issue with the wagon going under Bakers Road overbridge.  It just cleared it.  Luckily the paint crew can repaint the bridge where the scrap marks were left from the wagon.  

Gaining height on the layout spiral #15 has passed Bakers Road overbridge and is about to entry Rappville Loop 

The train easily traversed the Richmond River Bridge.

The Richmond River bridge is just south of Cassino

Successful running resumed until it got to Simpson’s Parade overbridge at Cassino.  It again just scraped by under the road bridge.  

Simpson's Parade overbridge above, as the train takes the Yard

The no. 15 paper train stabled overnight in the Cassino Yard in road 1.  The Cassino Yard was full with the stock train in number 2 road in the yard, and the recently restored NSWGR DEB set still sitting around waiting for a qualified driver to take it to South Brisbane Interstate Station on a combined NSW and QR ARHS tour.  In the platform road we had 48128 with #20 Up freight with four sugar wagons, empty container, an empty open wagon, empty petrol tank, an open wagon with two containers onboard and a louvre wagon.

The ATLP 2022 car stands out in the yard due to its dimensions.

No. 15 left Cassino Yard and made its way to Park Road Siding as the Paper Train with the ATLP 2022 onboard.  

When the train reached the Nammoona ballast Siding, it turned a few heads.

ATLP 2022 is seen here passing the Nammoona Ballast Siding

Passing the Nammoona Ballast Siding

The next landmark passed from the dead center of town - at Fairy Hill.

The train is passing Ron and Marg's Bed and Breakfast

Quite a turn out has occurred at Fairy Lane

Now Passing Fairy Hill Farm

At the far end of the Fairy Hill Farm, the train is about to entry the southern end of Kyogle township and Kyogle loop.

Having passed the Kyogle Loop, the train travels over ANZAC Drive where an accident has occurred

Here the train is traversing Cougal Spiral, one of two on NSW railways trackage.  the maintenance crew do not seem interested

Past Cougal Spiral is Border Loop.  Just past here, the train from New South Wales into Queensland, and the clocks get rolled back 1 hour due to no daylight savings in Queensland

More activity occurring at Running Creek as the paper train continues north

At another crossing of Running Creek a Yowie is seen in the bush

The Risk is also having some track work undertaken as the train passes

The paper train is just exiting the transshipment as the train enters track 1 at Park Road Siding

Upon reaching Park Road, ALTP 2022 and the other wagons were all unloaded.  The rest of the wagons returned south, as number #16 empty paper train.  The ALTP 2022 car was left on the number one siding.  

It was later collected by #56 shunt, which becomes #58 shunt at Park Road Sidings.  

Number 56 shunt is coupling up to the ATLP 2022 car in Park Road Siding track 1.

It was then transferred by the local shunt train and taken to Acacia Ridge Yard.  It was here that it was bogie exchanged to narrow gauge – 12mm - 3’ 6” for a trial by the Queensland Railways. 

The ATLP Car has entered track 1 at Acacia Ridge Yard,  It will set back onto the dual gauge track and be bogie exchanges to 3'6" bogies for travel on Queensland Railways (QR) trackage

The QR train is made up and read to depart to South Brisbane Station

The ATLP 2022 car was sent back to South Brisbane Station and shunted into a siding. 

The car has made its way to Clapham Yard, heading to South Brisbane

The train is arrive at South Brisbane.  It will be shunted to a siding and loaded

ATLP 2022 was filled with railmotor parts at South Brisbane and sent back to Clapham before it was shunted into Rocklea Siding.  

The car arrived at Rocklea Siding and was unloaded

From Rocklea Siding , when empty the car was picked up and delivered back via Clapham Yard, to end up to Acacia Ridge Yard.  It was here that the car was bogie exchanged back to the standard gauge. 

The now empty ATLP 2022 car has arrived back at Acacia Ridge Yard and is about to be bogie exchanged back to standard gauge bogies

ATLP 2022 was sent to a siding to be loaded with crates of Queensland mangoes and is now waiting for the fruit train which is coming from South Brisbane Interstate station on the standard gauge

After being bogie exchanged, train number 6, the up Fruit Express is picking up the ATLP 2022 car as last wagon for transfer to Fleming Markets in Sydney

The car is now leaving Acacia Ridge Yard from the dual gauge heading south

ATLP 2022 was picked up as last wagon on the fruit train at Acacia Ridge Yard and taken south to Grafton Yard, before being sent onward to Flemington Markets so the great unwashed south of the Queensland border can get a mango or two in their local fruit shops. 

The car has made it to Grafton Yard, before it continues further south to Sydney's Flemington Markets

More Cassino Station Building Progress

I started off working on my To-Do check list on Monday.  I fixed the broken wire on a control panel in Clapham Yard.  I found the cold solder joint in the narrow gauge section between Dutton Park and Park Road and that was hit with the soldering iron and fixed.  I started planning the control panels for the narrow gauge triangle between Dutton Park, Park Road and Fisherman Islands.  The control panels building did not eventuate.  Maybe this week.  I also started looking into a loco that was playing up.  

When not doing any modelling I was spending time resurrecting a few locos that had been pulled off the layout due to either bad performance, or decoder brainfarts.  So bit by bit I got a few locos back in the world of the living.  I got one old Trax 48 class usable again.  I then got a motorless Jumbo usable with full lighting functions available for traffic.  So this can now be either a lead or secondary unit.  It is currently on a ballast train in push-pull setup in Lismore Yard.  This was followed by a couple of 80 class locos and then 3 more Jumbo.  There are a couple more to be scheduled for a tune-up and that will be in the near future.

Sitting in a passing track in Acacia Ridge Yard are 4 of the NSW locos that have been through an engine overhaul.

I also ran the ATLP 2022 boxcar back to Grafton Yard.  I then ran the empty fruit train back to South Brisbane and the locos back to Loco Pilly.  The ATLP boxcar was brought to the NMRA meeting on Saturday and handed over to Glen.  I believe it will be given back to Marty on Sunday at their Club get together.  I will eventually do a Blog post on this cars' travels on my layout when I can find some time to put it all together.

Most of the rest of the week, was spent doing work on the roof and awnings on the Refreshment room end of the building.  I did some painting on a few pieces.  I started making the section around the breezeway.  I am still looking at how I can fit the roof securely and also have it removable.

I also spent some time this week on printing my new timetables cards.  The original format of these cards have served me well for over 10 years and were A6 in size on perforated paper.  After December’s Operations Session, I spent some time re-doing everything here as A5 timetable cards.  My eyes are not getting any younger and some of my operators are older then me.  I was struggling to read the cards that I wrote, so something had to change.  So I printed the timetable cards on A4 perforated paper giving two timetable cards.  But I had forgotten to do a test print of a single page first, and the print of the two timetable cards on the A4 sheet was not centred.  Bugger.  The second timetable card was on both sides of the perforation.  So I had to spend some time doing slight adjustments to me file to ensure that I could just re-print the files onto these A4 perforated sheets and get two perfect timetable cards out on a single page.  I was also having differences when printing the actual EXCEL version compared with a PDF file.  The PDF version was just printing using about 75% of the available real-estate on the page.  That had me beat.  So I think I have now got it working, and I will re-try a full print this coming week.  No I need to build some new timetable card storage boxes on the layout fascia.  More work.  It keeps mounting up.

On Saturday we went to the local NMRA meeting just down the road in the next suburb.  That was very convenient.  There was a good turn up and there were three presentations.  Garry the host for the day took us through the machinery in his company workshop and demonstrated the equipment in action.  OMG!  You use the correct tool for the job, and it is very easy. 

One of the other activities that I was going this week and especially today was working on the roof of the Cassino Station and Refreshment room building.  This is starting to come together.  I’m not sure how I will make the roof sit down onto the building as I will need the roof detachable.  Maybe some small micro magnets.  So I just ordered some of these on eBay and I see how that work.

From the southern end of the cassino platform we see the roof on the station building.

At the other end, we see the refreshment room with its roof on.

The breezeway between the station building and the refreshment room still needs some work.

The refreshment room from the north.  Back platform on the left, and DEB set in the Loop.

Another view of the Refreshment Room side of the building.

Looking at the other end of the Refreshment Room with the breezeway on the left.

Trying to look into the station building from the other side.

Another shot over the wagons in the yard.

Looking into the refreshment Room from the main platform.

Again from the main platform side into the station building.

Station Progress - Lismore and Cassino

So Monday was a tidy up day.  I added a base to my platform shed for Lismore.  I also added some legs to the rear of the shed, as it hangs off the platform.  The trees were added to the area behind the platform.  I drilled 5 holes in the platform to accept the five poles for the platform awning and it was secured to the platform.

I touched up the window frames and platform facing doors in the Lismore platform shed with white paint and when the paint dried the shed was placed on the platform.

I did some experimenting by running a couple of wagons through the Lismore platform and adjusted the distance of the platform back from the track, following all this work.  The platform has had some facing added and the platform top itself was recently stained.  This area is coming along very well.

On Wednesday I started to turn my attention to the Cassino Station building.  This has been sitting in limbo for a while.  My main plan is to complete the roof of this very long structure in the next week or two.  However, I started by installing some styrene strip 0.100” x 0.100” square along the insides of all the rooms in the station building.  Some sections of wall in the station building had started to bend a bit.  So hopefully this strip will reinforce the sides, and help them to remain relatively square.  The next task was to install some solid wires through the roof structure so I can tap some LEDs into this roof top power bus in the future.  I also had a new delivery of eBay 0402 LEDs arrive on Thursday.  This power bus will provide power to LEDs under the awnings and allow them to have them controlled by fascia mounted switches.  I will also install another pair of copper lines in the roof of the refreshment room building.  As this structure too, will have working platform lights.  I also painted some other platform light poles a yellow colour.  I saw a photo of the platform lights being yellow in the early 90’s.  This is the modelling period, so I better get that correct.  These will also get wired up to a power supply under the layout in a week or two.

I have done some painting to the various sections of the station building roof.  The station building has had 4 pieces of roof painted and glued together.  I have painted the next 2 sections of roof, but not yet joined them to the first four.  I have also constructed 6 sections of roof for the refreshments room building.  These have been painted and assembled into 2 lots of 3.  I still need to build the supports to keep these sections of roof at the at correct angle.  I plan to work from both ends of the build back towards the middle as this is where the roof shape changes.  I think I should be able to have a trial fit of this over the coming week.  I have also added some fascia boards to the station building, and will need to be joined to the refreshment rooms section.  These items will then be extended to cover the full refreshment rooms area.  

This week I will need to fit the last three platform awning supports to the refreshment rooms section and also fit the building fascia which is made from scale 2” x 10” styrene.  I also need to fit the three intermediate roof supports between the building and the fascia.  I will start at the far end of the refreshment room building and work my back to the breezeway section between the refreshment room and the stations building.  This will be done with the structure sitting on the platform itself, as once I join this roof section up, the station building and refreshment rooms will not be able to be moved from the platform.  Besides having wires through the platform base for power, the roof supports are so thin they cannot support the whole station building.

On Saturday morning I went over to AMRA clubrooms for their buy and sell.  I came away with a few bargains.  I parked at PK’s place and we walked to the clubrooms together.  As my hands were getting full, I worked back to PK’s to stow my cache and had a coffee and a biscuit.  I then went back to the Buy and Sell, caught up with Arthur, and offered him a lift back to where he parked his car on the south side at Sunnybank station.  On Saturday evening, we joined the British Region and their regular Brew and Natter.  That is two hours I won't get back.

Today was fully spent running the ATLP2022 boxcar around the layout.  It left Cassino Yard and made its way to Park Road Siding.  The newsprint paper rolls it was carrying were unloaded.  It was then picked up by a local shunt train and taken to Acacia Ridge Yard.  It was here that it was bogie exchanged to narrow gauge – 12mm – 3’ 6” for a trial by the Queensland Railways.  It was sent back to South Brisbane Station and shunted into a siding.  It was filled with railmotor parts and sent back to Clapham before it was shunted into Rocklea Siding.  From Rocklea Siding it was picked up and via Clapham Yard, was sent to Acacia Ridge Yard and was bogie exchanged back to the standard gauge.  It has since been sent to a siding at Acacia Ridge yard to be loaded with Queensland mangoes and is now waiting for the fruit train which is coming from South Brisbane Interstate station, and it will be picked up and taken south to Grafton Yard, before being sent onward to Flemington Markets so the Mexicans can get a great tasking and juicy mango or two in their local fruit shops. 

So this coming week I will complete the ATLP2022 moves, continue working on the station roof for Cassino, add a power bus to the refreshment room, add the LED lights, fix a loose wire for track 3 at the northern end of Clapham Yard Panel and find out why there is intermittent power to a section of narrow gauge track between Dutton Park to Park Road.  the ATLP Box car is moving on next Saturday.

Haven't Done Scenery For a While

This week I continued work on the Old Cassino Dairy building.  Basically, I got all my scenery material out on Monday and prepared the site.  I was running out of various coloured dirts provided in various individual plastic bags for scenery.  But before old Mike passed away, he gave me a few ice-cream buckets full of various coloured dirts and sands.  I cut up some styrene to be used as simulated concrete underneath the shed awning of the Dairy building.  This styrene was painted a concrete colour that I had sitting in my paint stand.

On Tuesday I started spreading some dirts around the siding.  All the way up the headshunt, back through the Dairy siding, up until the road crossing between the Dairy and the Old Cassino Station, the dirts were scattered.  This was glued down using a pipette dribbling wet diluted PVA glue over the dirts.  The pieces of concrete around the shed awning were then glued in with PVA glue.  Basically the next step was to bring the ground level up to the required level next to the concrete pads and replace the use of ballast with dirts and grasses.  As my photos show lots of grass around this track on the prototype, I applied a couple of colours of various greens and yellow scatters to bring the dirt to life.  This was allowed to dry.  I also installed the 5 small concrete bases to go around the posts for the dairy shed awning supports.  These were also glued in.

Attention has now turned to Lismore station.  On Tuesday night I got online with a few of the Tuesday Nighters, and we were discussing the various photos of Lismore platform that I had.  I was planning to building the modern station awning at the southern end of the platform.  That was easy.  We agreed to some metrics after looking at Google Maps.  We guessed the height of the structure after viewing various angles and taking into account the other structures on the platform.  The next dilemma was the weatherboard structure next to the awning.  It looked like an out-of-shed, or other storage shed on the platform.  We guessed its dimensions, and its height.

Building the awning on Wednesday was quite straight forward.  Building the skillion roofed building took some more guesses.  Thursday was spent doing some work on some detail items for the layout.  I went looking for some more of the witches’ hats that Greg Beal 3D prints.  He does 10 for $2 for the small size.  I think he does 10 for $5 for the larger ones.  They actually come in orange, and after tidying up the flash from the print, are immediately placeable on the layout.  I then tidied up two ornate bath tubs, which Greg also 3D prints.  2 for $2.  I then tidied up his old agitator washing machine with wringer.  This is sold for $3.  These items got a short coat of appliance white on Friday in between rain showers.

As I’m working on Lismore station, I had to put in the carpark behind the platform.  I used a 1.5mm balsa base that I stained with ink pad ink and metho.  I had to mix up a new brew of stain.  I just pour in some metho and then pour in some ink pad ink.  It needs to have enough ink to make the balsa go black and not blue.  I drew up a small car park to scale on a piece of paper, and after working out how much space I had behind the platform back to the sky board, I narrowed the distance between the two rows of parking, and the whole car park could fit in.  This was transferred onto the balsa wood.  I use 0.040” x 0.010” styrene strip as the white lines in the car park.  I used 0.080” angle for the curbing.  This angle can be bent to form the various curved gutter corners in the carpark if you take it easy. The styrene is welded to the balsa by using styrene glue and soaking it.

Today, the area between the carpark and the existing scenery at Lismore was today converted from virgin baseboard into scenery.  The ground is painted a dirt colour.  Next, dirts are scattered over eth area, and then the various grass colours added.  I have also obtained about 20 trees that will eventually populate the area.  The trees will be planted next week.  Today I also painted another couple of square feet of raw baseboard around the Lismore to Murwillumbah spiral with a ground colour before further scenery work is undertaken.  I also painted up the Lismore station awning.  I also painted the roof and the skillion roofed platform building.  I have yet to paint the window white and the doors white.  These will be planted on the scene early next week.

Old Cassino Dairy is Being Installed

On Monday I continued work on my Old Cassino Dairy building.  I added a couple of bits of styrene, so I could use a bulldog clip to join the two back buildings together.

On Tuesday we went to Kevin’s place and we had a reasonable small turn out.  Kevin continues to progress his track laying.  When Darren arrived he handed me the ALTP 2022 freight car.  The car followed me home.  See a future Blog about what happened when it got to my place.  During the week I was also doing some running of a particular train around the layout.  It started at Grafton Yard and has only moved through to Cassino Yard at this point in time.  I was also doing some enhancements to the timetable with two more Shunt Lists created and some text on some timetable cards enhanced.

Cassino Yard is chockers.

On Friday morning I added some styrene to the roof of the lean-to, so that it just plugs or clicks into place on the assembly.

The real dairy building has some large pipes above the sliding doors in the brick part of the building.  I have a piping set sitting around.  So I cut up a couple of lengths of piping from that kit and made some curved ends so that the pipes look like they do to somewhere from somewhere else.  Today while I was watching the Lions on TV, I decided to fit the roof section to the building \fascia.  I used some 0.025” phosphor bronze wire to join the over shed roof to the building rooves.  I drilled a hole up the 5 rear stirrups that support the shed roof, and threaded the 0.025” wire into these.  I then drilled similar accommodating holes in the corrugated the two building rooves so that the 0.025” wire just slips down into the roof holes.  This locks the three components together. 

There is nothing better that taking that model down to the layout and placing it on the layout.  The layout fascia was about 1cm too low to meet up with the rooves.  So I removed that 600mm length of fascia and installed it about 15mm higher.  Just like a bought one!  A quick coat of paint on both sides of the fascia to hide the old screw holes and I also did a bit more work on a small section of backboard in Old Cassino. 

The Old Cassino Dairy viewed from the other side of the tracks

A close up view of the Dairy buildings from the Goods Siding

having walked down to the far end of the Dairy Siding.  This photo is taken back towards the station.  The building needs to be settled in against the backdrop/layout fascia and the 5 posts need to put into concrete surround, so the posts are upright.  Then ballasting and ground work will occur this week.

While in the painting mindset, I gave the platform at Lismore another coat of stain.  I also gave the platform at Old Cassino a coat of stain.  My next job here is to work out what type of platform facing I need to make for Old Cassino.  I just realised that the local NMRA guys are also coming to my place in June this year.  I also have my layout opened for viewing at the 2025 Australasian NMRA Convention on a couple of days.  So I need to do a few more projects.

A view of the stained Lismore Platform, with a few locos sitting in the yard.

A second view of the stained Lismore Platform.

The platform at Old Cassino has just been stained and the background backdrop was painted black (behind the goods shed).

Railmotor and Other Models Progress and Then the Dairy Building

I finally got to the shed today after a few days of waiting for the cyclone to come ashore and then we experienced the relentless rain.

On Monday afternoon I painted a small area under the QR HO wagon along one edge.  I used a micro brush to get access to some less than suitably painted areas between gussets and along some ridges.  Attention then turned to the QR 2050 class railmotor.  I then drilled holes on one side of the railmotor and fitted handrails to the doors.  I then painted the handrails with a micro brush and then fitted these to the railmotor.  On Tuesday, I turned the railmotor over and drilled the holes for that side’s handrails.  They were attached and the railmotor set aside.  I then painted my walkway protectors a darker grey colour, and set them aside.  I will eventually get around to fitting them.

While on Tuesday when picking up my QR QH loco, I noticed that one of the bogies had seized (did not swivel), after I painted the inside of the bogie supports a few days earlier.  The bogie clips into these bogie supports.  Whoops!  While trying to unseize it, I broke off two of the bogie side frames from that bogie.  So on Wednesday I re-glued the bogie side frames, and allowed them to dry.

On Thursday I took my QR DH down to the layout and put it on the track at Acacia Ridge Yard.  I gave it a run back and forward shunting some coal wagons.  It was struggling with 5, but ran OK with 3.  I brought it back upstairs and proceeded to add some more lead over the power bogie.  Now with this extra weight, it can easily haul 5 coal wagons back and forth on the flat.  It takes time to get mobile, but has momentum when going.

While watching some F1 practice on the TV, I was looking at the marker lights on my QR 2050 railmotor.  I added a bit of red paint around the 0402 LEDs on the rear of the railmotor and when I turned them on, they looked pretty good.  I was thinking of adding some red paint to the fibre optic outputs that I had for the front facing red marker lights.  But I cannot get a good enough brightness out of them.  I did some experiments with some more 0402 LEDs and these were also dipped in some red paint.  When lit they look reasonable.  So some work was undertaken to remove the LED controlling the fibre optics and replaced with these two 0402 LEDs for the front facing red marker lights.

I then had to get my head around adjusting the various CVs in my decoder in the railmotor.  I have decided that the following setup will be programmed:-

• Headlight will be F0
• Front white marker lights will be F1
• Front red marker lights will be F2
• The rear marker lights were removed from the F0R and setup to be controlled by F3.

I actually did a google and found an article that explained the CVs operation to me.  About 10 years ago I was all on top of this.  I had forgotten quite a lot.  So I programmed the decoder and gave it a test.  Brilliant!  All lights operated independently. 

On Saturday morning I took the railmotor to the track and tested the new LED front red marker lights.  Worked brilliantly.  That was when things went wrong.  I was looking at adding a screw through the railmotor base to the roof at the rear of the model to lock the roof on.  I had drilled a hole in the floor and while drilling a hole in the roof (with a power drill) at a very slow speed from beneath the floor, I snagged the micro wires from to the rear 0402 red LEDs.  I also ripped one of the LEDs from the rear of the railmotor, and tore through a few wires.  Bugger.  I was able to save one of the LED in the rear of the railmotor.  So I had to get another 0402 LED ready, dipped it in red paint, trimmed the length of wires attached, soldered it into the circuits and installed it in the rear of the railmotor.  Everything looks good again.  I could have done without that inconvenience.  However when I did a further test tonight, all the LED lights were turning on.  I had no idea of the cause.  The loco would not move backwards or forwards.  I put it in DC and it moved, and all the LEDs came on.  I blew on the decoder.  There had to be a small micro filament wire bridging somewhere.  I gave it another test, this time, movement came back.  All the lights individually worked.  Phew!  I could breath again.

Because I could, I did.  On Saturday afternoon while watching the Formula 1 on TV, I started to plan the construction and start the build of the Old Cassino Dairy structure over the siding for the milk wagons.  This will be in low relief.  I saw a post yesterday from Darren earlier in the day and he was putting together some Milk tank containers.  I have a few of these that I have had for some years now.  Maybe I should put mine together as well.  So two great minds doing dairy modelling. 

Today construction continued.  I am pretty happy with the result.  Ther needs to be some painting, and I will try and replicate the colours of the Old Cassino Dairy siding lean-to.  I will try the painting this week.

The Old Cassino Dairy lean-to where the milk tanks were loaded

The lean to with various roof lines visible.

The two buildings being modelled project at different widths.

The brick section has some opening doors for some sort of hose to come out and fill the tanks.  On the right is the rear of the QR 2050 railmotor.